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Centipede

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.

    "Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment."

  2. 2
    chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors wordnet
  3. 3
    A many-oared Chinese smuggling boat. obsolete

Etymology

From French centipède, from Latin centipeda, centipēs, from centi- (“hundred”) + pēs (“foot”); equivalent to centi- + -pede.

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